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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, this issue really gets people going!

My 2 cents:  I am a teacher at a DC private and live relatively far out in Montgomery County.  I got up early and made it in, but there were some white knuckle moments for sure and I questioned my own judgment a few times along the way in.  I will say that, had I notified the school that I would be late because the driving was unsafe from my location at that time (early and with very low temps and a fair amount of untreated roads), they would have been supportive of my decision.

I did see quite a few accidents and traffic jams caused by cars that could not make it up icy hills or had slid across the lines into other cars, as well as a couple of Montgomery County schoolbuses that seemed to have pulled over or been involved in (fortunately) relatively minor accidents.

On balance, this is a day on which I wish they had invoked the 2-hour delay.  However, it is not an easy decision; it is a thankless task to make that decision; and even a two-hour delay can be fairly disruptive (for example, if the school runs all classes on a shortened schedule, you can't give a test that was formatted for the longer time period).

Lastly, I get why people are referencing NE or Michigan roots -- it's a way of saying "I'm not just a Southern person scared of cold precipitation falling from the sky."

Anyway, everybody's here, temps have risen, all is well.  Hope temps on DCUM cool. :)[/quote]

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